Sport: Budding Controversy

Perhaps the most tangled case of 1984 Olympic eligibility is that of a
tiny teenager, 5-ft. 2-in., 82-lb. Zola Budd. The 17-year-old may be the fastest female
middle-distance runner in the world, but she is having a tough time proving it
officially. The reason: she is a white South African as well as a
hastily minted British citizen. And that quick switch strikes some as
too fast altogether.

The farm girl emerged, seemingly from nowhere, in
a race near Cape Town last January. Striding barefoot, as she
prefers, over the artificial Tartan, Budd ran...